Vogue Italia May 7, 2010 The Lipstick Portraits by Olivia Fincato "Red lipstick is an effective symbol of individual expression and freedom" More

Interview Magazine May 4, 2010 Changing the Meaning of Red By Katherine Zarella Made iconic by the lips of Coco Chanel, Marilyn Monroe, and even Cleopatra, red lipstick is the cosmetic embodiment of strength, confidence and sexuality. However, in Cambodia, it has quite a different connotation. More

The Daily Beast May 1, 2010 Warning: Lipstick can mark a child as a sex slave. SEE PHOTOS of Dita Von Teese, Susan Sarandon, and other stars posing in bright red lipstick to stop human trafficking. More

The New York Observer November 26, 2008 A Procession of Them: The Plight of the Mentally Disabled by Meredith Bryan Feeling like a turkey because you're going broke and somehow you just don't care anymore and your shrink keeps telling you some crap about whenever one door closes another one opens? Two choices today, More

Men.Style.Com May 14, 2008 "GOING OVER HOME" AT 401 PROJECTS By Jonathan Durbin Opening today: a striking new exhibit of photographs taken by GQ design director Fred Woodward. Printed in high-contrast black-and-white, the pictures were originally snapped in 1986 to accompany an article written by Nicholas Lemann for The Atlantic Monthly. The concept was to document how the flight of middle-class African-Americans to Chicago from small towns in the South had created, as The Atlantic put it, a "disastrously isolated underclass." More

New York Times March 23, 2008 BARSHNIKOV'S ARTISTRY, BEHIND THE CAMERA by Alastair Macaulay Click Here to See NY Times Slideshow MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV, one of the greatest dancers in history, has turned dance photographer. His images reveal an entirely unorthodox style; as the title of his new exhibition at 401 Projects, "Merce My Way," suggests, his subject is the equally unorthodox work of another dance artist, Merce Cunningham. More

New York March 17, 2008 MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV AND MERCE CUNNINGHAM TALK DANCE PHOTOGRAPHY by Rebecca Milzoff He may not be gracing the stage quite so often these days, but ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov has remained an ever-present artistic force; look around town, and you'll see his mark on everything from cultural venues (the impressive Baryshnikov Arts Center) to new modern dance (his young Hell's Kitchen Dance troupe) to theater (in last year's acclaimed Beckett Shorts) to worshipful artistic homages — his mostly naked body is depicted, Apollo-like, by Robert Wilson, in the lobby of BAM. More

Style.com March 18, 2008 THE MOVING IMAGE by Sarah Fones Being an established artist who also dabbles in a creative side project or two may seem par for the course these days, particularly when it comes to photography—see Karl Lagerfeld, Patti Smith, and Bryan Adams. Add dancer/actor Mikhail Baryshnikov to the list. More

Daily News March 16, 2008 BARYSHINIKOV HAS A LENS ON DANCE by Patrick Hugenin Mikhail Baryshnikov won acclaim as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century. Maybe that's why when it came to his hobby - photography - he stayed away from the dance studio. More

New York Observer March 4, 2008 MERCE ME! MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV, BEST BALLET DANCER EVER, TO SHOW SNAPS OF MODERN DANCE COMPANY by Meredith Bryan "Come here to the corridor. This is all my photography," said the legendary ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov the other day at his studio on West 37th Street. Hanging in the hallway were black-and-white portraits of "friends, artists, people I worked with, my kids, Richard Avedon, a great photographer …" More

The Village Voice September 18, 2007 TALK TO ME, LOU by Lynn Yaeger "Lynn? Who's Lynn?" I hear Lou Reed say to a gallery employee across the floor at 401 Projects. She's begging Reed to find a moment to speak with me—"It would be really good to have a write-up of this exhibition," she implores—but, alas, no dice. According to Steven Kasher, who is designing the exhibit along with Reed, an interruption to answer a few press questions is impossible because "Lou wants to continue with the process because it's a process, and he's really concentrating." More

New York Observer September 12, 2007 SUMMER OF 35mm! BRYAN ADAMS, OTHER ROCK STARS, ENJOY PHOTOGRAPHING...EACH OTHER By Meredith Bryan "Life is short. There's no reason why you can't love many different ways of creating," said Vanity Fair and GQ photographer Mark Seliger at his 401 Projects gallery in the far West Village, where an exhibit called "Visions of Rock" debuted on Saturday, Sept. 8. More

New York Magazine June 13, 2007 MUHAMMAD ALI'S DAUGHTER IS CRAZY By Bennett Marcus What do you learn as Muhammad Ali's daughter? That it pays to be crazy. That's what Maryum Ali told us last night at the opening of an exhibit she curated of Magnum photos of her father. More

People June 15, 2007 FLOATS LIKE A BUTTERFLY Mariah Carey gets chummy with Michael J. Fox at the opening of Magnum Group's Muhammad Ali photo exhibit in Manhattan on Tuesday. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the iconic prints benefit the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.

New York Post June 14, 2007 WE HEAR. . . . . . THAT the Magnum Photo Festival kicks off with an exhibit at the 401 Projects gallery on West Street, featuring never-before-seen photos of Muhammad Ali. The show is sponsored by Claiborne and was curated by his daughter, Maryum Ali.

New York Times March 28, 2007 World's Cruelty and Pain, Seen in an Unblinking Lens by Michael Kimmerman If this were a perfect world, everybody would see the photographer James Nachtwey's astonishing shows at the United Nations and at 401 Projects in the West Village. Sadly, as Mr. Nachtwey knows, this isn't a perfect world, a point he brings home in the work shown here. "Inferno," the title of a 1999 book of the photographs he shot in Kosovo, Rwanda and other hellholes, aptly describes the horror in these two exhibitions. More

American Photo March 3, 2007 WAR WOUNDS In 2006 eminent photojournalist James Nachtwey returned to Iraq for his first trip to the country since being wounded in a 2003 grenade blast in Bagdad. Not surprisingly Nachtewy chose to train his camera on the military medical system. More

The Sun March 8, 2007 WAR & EVERYTHING AFTER By William Meyers Sometimes the disparate parts of one's life come into conjunction in startling ways. I have been rereading "War and Peace," and the night before I went to see "The Sacrifice," an exhibition of photographs by James Nachtwey at 401 Projects, More

New York Observer November 11, 2006 MISHA'S MUSES On Saturday, Nov. 4, Mikhail Baryshnikov hosted a show at Mark Seliger's new gallery, 401 Projects, for one of his favorite snappers, award-inning Japanese photographer, Eikoh Hosoe. "His perspective is very refreshing," said the dancer of the photo. "He said, 'If you take the flesh away, you'll find all universe in the skeleton. 'And it's true, because the human body includes geometrics, rounds, globals, angles-there is everything you want." His pal Jessica Lange also enjoys bodywork. "It's extraordinary, isn't it?" she chirped.

New York Times May 7, 2006 NOT-SO-STILL-LIFE WITH STAIRWELL By Lily Koppel IT'S hard to imagine the photographer Mark Seliger bored or for that matter worrying about beauty rest. He does have an alt-country band, after all. And he just opened a photography gallery, 401 Projects, next to his studio in the West Village. More

Popular Photography December 11, 2006 FIGHTING AIDS THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY KRISTEN ASHBURNS BLOODLINES By Lori Fredrickson "I began this project to give a voice to the people behind the statistics," 33-year-old Kristen Ashburn says of her upcoming exhibit, "Bloodline," a collection taken from her work documenting the AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. An enormous task to undertake, for a region where the statistics are daunting -- according to the World Health Organization, 24.5 million people in sub-Saharan Africa today are infected with HIV/AIDS; 2 million people died of the disease in 2005 alone, and approximately 12 million children have been orphaned as a result of it. More

LA Times December 10, 2006 THE AGRICAN SCOURGE by Kristen Ashburn TEN MILLION AFRICANS ARE infected with HIV. Eighteen million have already died from the virus. One in four children in southern Africa has been orphaned. Forty-three million more Africans will die of AIDS by 2010. From December 2000 through the summer of 2006, I pursued some of the individual stories behind these grim statistics, in four African countries. More

In Style December 7, 2006 THE GUESTS by Bryan Bedder Lenny Kravitz and his daughter Zoe opened Bloodline—an exhibition of photographs, presented by DKNY Jeans, that document the harsh realities of the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. The event, which was part of World AIDS day, was a benefit for Keep a Child Alive and the Mashambanzou Care Trust. Other attendees included Iman, Amy Smart and model Petra Nemcova.

Fashion Week Daily December 05, 2006 FRIDAY NIGHT CAUSE By Meredith Fisher and Jim Shi Iman joined Zoe and Lenny Kravitz at gallery and community space 401 Projects for a preview of Bloodline: AIDS and Family, Kristen Ashburn’s raw photographic series on the sub-Saharan AIDS pandemic. The event, sponsored by DKNY Jeans, brought out Amy Smart, Lauren Bush, Mark Seliger, Petra Nemcova, Leven Rambin, and Dylan Lauren, all of whom chatted with the Kravitzes before leaving to attend a Tenacious D concert in celebration of Zoe’s birthday. Iman, meanwhile, More

Fashion Week Daily November 6, 2006 HOSOE IN THE HOUSE by Meredith Fisher Seliger and Baryshnikov serve up chic shots Downtown dwellers got the 4-1-1 at 401 Projects Saturday night, when famed photographer Mark Seliger opened the doors to his West Village gallery—part workshop, part exhibit space, part meeting place—to host “Inter-Course,” an exhibition of photographs by Eikoh Hosoe. “Eikoh is my idol, my hero,” said Seliger. “When I was a photography student in Texas, my teacher taught us about Hosoe, and when we conceived the gallery we thought it would be a great show.” Next up for Seliger? An opening at 401 Projects planned with Keep A Child Alive, showcasing Michael Thompson’s “I Am African” campaign. More

CPW July 2006 CPW'S SPRING 2006 EXHIBITION, PHOTOGRAPHY NOW '06, TRAVELS TO NYC CPW is pleased to announce that our annual juried exhibition will be on view at the newly established 401 Projects in NYC from June 28th - July 30th, 2006. Juried by Natasha Lunn, photo editor of The New Yorker, Photography Now '06 presents a nation-wide selection of 9 image-makers whose work offers us a glimpse of some of the newest and most exciting emerging photographers working today. It was originally presented at the Center for Photography at Woodstock from April 8 - June 11, 2006. To learn more about the show and the artists selected click here. More

City Magazine's Page One July 2006 CITY INTERVIEWS MARK SELIGER By Eva Hagberg Photographer Mark Seliger and lighting whiz-kid Brent Langton recently opened up 401 Projects, an exhibition gallery at 401 West Street in New York dedicated to giving space to photography that might not have a home elsewhere. It launched in May with a show of Seliger’s own, “In My Stairwell,” (Pilobolus, new York City, 2002, right), and an exhibit by Albert Watson (Golden Boy, New York City, 1990, right). A rotating set of shows will give forum to photographs whose work might be just a bit too creative, a bit too unusual, or a bit too exciting for the mainstream art scene. Eva Hagberg spoke with Seliger in a rare moment of downtime. More

Photograph Magazine July 2006 EYE ON THE SCENE By Jori FInkel .......Why does celebrity photographer Mark Seliger want the hassles of owning a gallery? The short answer is because he can afford to. "It's really not about sales but about projects," he says of 401 Projects, located near his studio in New York City. "I think of it as a salon more than a gallery." Salon for Seliger, who was once head photographer of Rolling Stone, means conversations, music, and other performances. In October for example, he will host master workshops by Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe along with staging an exhibition of his images, in partnership with Howard Greenberg. He is also currently in talks with dancer-actor-photographer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who was reportedly the last person to photograph Richard Avedon.

South China Morning Post April 30 2006 ELEVATOR MUSES By David Watkins Mark Seliger is responsible for some of pop culture's most iconic portraits, including a series shot in an old lift shaft. To exhibit his work, and create a focal point for New York's photographic community, he has opened a salon, writes David Watkins. More

New York Cool June 2006 ADRENALINE RUSH By Christina M Hinke Exhibit Photos Courtesy of Albert Watson Opening Night Photo-Christina M. Hinke “A Few Portraits” by Albert Watson Opening Night, May 20, 2006 It’s easy to see why Alfred Hitchcock was inspired to invite Albert Watson back home for tea after Watson finished his first photo shoot with the famed movie director. Watson’s jovial attitude and true passion for what he does is exhilarating. And Albert Watson’s private opening reception for his first solo show in New York at 401 Projects certainly had a packed house. The Scotsman himself was in attendance for the exhibit of thirteen of his eight foot by six foot prints (shot with an eight by ten camera) plus hundreds of never-before-seen Polaroids. More

The Villager June 14-20, 2006 ALBERT WATSON'S OMNIVOROUS LENS By Aileen Torres Though his name may not be as familiar as Richard Avedon’s or Irving Penn’s, Scottish-born photographer Albert Watson is highly renowned in his industry, particularly for his work in fashion. Named one of the 20 most influential photographers of all time by Photo District News magazine, the West Village resident now has his first solo show in New York at 401 Projects, a new gallery space and community center for photographers just a few blocks from Watson’s own studio. More

Women's Wear Daily May 22, 2006 SHOW AND SELL By Sara James Scotsman Albert Watson has been taking pictures for 35 years — of subjects ranging from Mick Jagger to Andy Warhol, Alfred Hitchcock to Kate Moss — but, oddly, he's only just now getting his first solo New York show. Fellow photographer Mark Seliger is displaying a selection of Watson's large-scale prints and Polaroids in his new space, 401 Projects, a noncommercial gallery in the West Village that Seliger created to showcase the work of emerging and established photographers. Corporate clients underwrite overhead costs, so all proceeds from sales go back to the photographers or to a charity of their choosing. (DKNY is sponsoring the Watson installation, which opens on Wednesday.) Watson, who began his career as a fashion photographer in the Seventies, has shot for Vogue, Rolling Stone, Interview, Vibe, Time, Newsweek, Life and ... Quentin Tarantino. He took the photo of Uma Thurman wielding a sword for the "Kill Bill" movie posters.

Psychodpedia.com May 23, 2006 PORTRAITS OF AN ARTIST By Sara Costello Albert Watson's First NYC Solo Show Acclaimed fashion photographer Albert Watson is staring at his portrait of Mike Tyson – an explosively blown-up image of the boxer’s sweaty, beefed-up back. “He’s very sweet,” says Watson, without a hint of humor. “He was 18 years old, and had only been professional a year or so when the picture was taken.” More

French Photo May 2006 MARK SELIGER OUVRE SA GALERIE: 401 PROJECTS By Eve Therond Seliger avait besoin d'une chambre noire, Brent Langton cherchait une expansion à sa compagnie d'éclairages. Un espace se liberait juste à coté du studio du photographe dans le West Village, ils ont décidé d'ouvrir une galerie. Pas une galerie ordinaire... More

American Photo April 23, 2006 MARK SELIGER'S PRIVATE SPACE By David Schonauer We often talk of photographs capturing a moment in time, but in Mark Seliger's new work it is a place that is captured -- a stairwell in an abandoned elevator shaft in his Manhattan studio. For Seliger's purposes, the stairwell offered beautiful light and a wonderful background of textured brick and wood. But it also represents more: a secluded place to explore new ideas, where this brilliant photographer could quite literally set the stage for a different, personal kind of portraiture. More

Time Out New York April 6–12, 2006 PICTURE PERFECT By Justin Rocket Silverman Star shutterbug Mark Seliger opens a visionary space in the far West Village More

City Magazine's Page One April 12, 2006 LISTEN Who's in your stairwell? If you're acclaimed photographer Mark Seliger, it could be any modern icon from Lenny Kravitz to Laurie Anderson, Woody Allen to Azar Nafisi. Luckily for the rest of us, Seliger not only got them there, but also shot them there. And he's sharing 39 of the resulting black-and-white portraits in the exhibit —which also are included in his new book "In My Stairwell" (Rizzoli)—at the gallery 401 Projects in New York City. Set in Seliger's stark stairwell, all the portraits highlight the subjects' eclectic personalities, while their expressive poses bring candidness and sensitivity to the cult of celebrity. Hey, it's the next best thing to getting to know Iman on your own stairwell. 401 Projects, 401 West Street, New York; exhibit runs until May 2. Go to www.401projects.com and purchase at www.amazon.com